desiderate
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Upon my faith, sir," said Campbell, "I cannot render you the service you seem to desiderate.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
One can only query whether poetry has anything to do with “modern development,” and desiderate the addition to “sentiment” of “art.”
From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George
He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
Pray, pray, don't think of answering this; it is merely to correct an unfavourable impression in one whose favourable opinion I much desiderate.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
For an oracle, of course, he would have looked in another direction; but he desiderated something more on a level with himself, and that they abundantly supplied.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry
Time and patience were alike necessary in order to the successful accomplishment of the end desiderated.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
The Board of Works supplied the long desiderated unity of administration.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
The encouragement desiderated at home, the poet, however, experienced elsewhere.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
In every other problem the solution of the problem is the end desiderated: the means are the thinking requisite for its solution.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
That possibility, I need hardly say, is one that, as the actual world goes, we have ample grounds for desiderating.
From Pragmatism by James, William
Perhaps that which we are desiderating could not be better expressed than by saying that we need a ministry prophetic and apostolic.
From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by Stalker, James
